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BOGIA & ZIMMERMAN'S 

COUPE CROQUET 

BILLIARD AND MARBLE GAME, 




FOR FIELD AND PARLOR, 

Patented February 17, 1874. 



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PHILADELPHIA:^ 
James E. Kryder, Printer, No. 32 South Seventh St. 

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by 

BOGIA & ZIMMERMAN, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



PREFACE. 

The inventors in getting up the patent 
Cup Game of Croquet, endeavor to make 
it more interesting to players than tliat which 
is played through the wires, as it can be 
played in a smaller space by our improve- 
ment with cups. 

It can also be turned into other interesting 
games, such as Billiards, with mallet, or 
Marbles for boys, by the use of the cups. 

Hoping it will meet with your favor, we 
remain, 

Yours respectfully, 

BOGIA & ZIMMERMAN, 

' Patentees. 

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COUPE CROQUET. 



CUP CROQUET GAME. 












Size of bed, six feet wide, eight feet long-. Diamond 
shaped as per diagram. King- ball, three feet below first 
cup as target. Base, five feet below king ball. 



COP CBOOOET GAME. 

Draw the lines, as in the diagram, on the grass, 
or other place best suited to the players. The 
diagram is diamond-shaped, drawn one inch to the 
foot, or as the size or diagram is marked on Plate 
No. 1. Cut out the circle with a knife, then place 
a cup in the ground and a board over the cup; 
press down with the foot so that the edge of the 
cup will be even with the surface of the ground, 
in order that the ball may readily run in. There 
are nine balls (one for each cup); they are known 
as the red, white, blue, and black ; the cups are 
numbered from one to nine ; each player is to have 
two balls, when four are playing, making in all 
eight ; the odd ball is called the king, and is to be 
placed as a target three feet below the first cup. 
If the king ball is deposited in any of the cups it 
counts double ; if the black balls are deposited by 
any of the players they are counted to the owner, 

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and the owner of the black ball has the right to 
take one of the balls out of the loAvest numbered 
cup ; if they should both be deposited by other 
players, any player can go for the cups or croquet 
other players' balls in cups to add to their account, 
or croquet other players away if to their advan- 
tage. If they should miss getting in cups or miss 
hitting any of the othqr players" balls they stop, 
and the next player goes on. You can only use one 
ball until it is deposited in the cup ; you then take 
the other, starting from the base ; no player can 
have two balls out of the cups to play w^ith unless 
they have been knocked out after having been 
deposited ; each player is to do the best he can to 
get other players' balls in the cups, as they count 
to their game, except the black balls — they are 
counted to the owner ; when the black balls are 
deposited except, by the owner, they are counted as 
a miss, then the next player goes on. Players can 
croquet a black ball away from the cups ; players 
keep on if they deposit or croquet ; if missing, 
either next player goes on. The full numbei; of 



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cups count fifty-four ; with the king ball in num- 
ber nine counts double ; each player is to continue 
the game until all balls are deposited. 

If any players' balls are knocked out of the cups 
it gives the owner a chance to continue playing 
when their turn comes around to add to their 
account; the players who counts the highest 
number wins the game. No player can croquet 
the balls out of the cups ; if they should hit them 
and they come out it will count as a miss and the 
next player goes on, but should they accidentally 
knock a ball out of cups and deposit their own, if 
they have another ball they can continue on play- 
ing. Players hitting other players' balls can place 
their ball to croquet anywhere. 

Size of bed, six feet wide, eight feet long, dia- 
mond shaped, as per diagram. 

King ball three feet below first cup as target. 

Base, five feet below king ball. 

GAME KEPT ON SLATE. 



COUPE CROQUET. 



BILLIARD CUP GAME. 









Size of bed, six feet wide, eight feet long. Cups one 
foot apart in corners, as per diagram. 



BILUAHG GAME. 

In laying out the billiard game, place two cups 
in corner, one foot between each cup ; players to 
make the size of bed according to the ground they 
may have to play on, as per diagram as to shape. 
The numbers jjainted on cups are not to be used 
in this game. The game is to consist of fifty 
points, to be played as follows : 

Players are to choose who are to play first, 
second, and so on ; playere when commencing tho 
game, play their balls from lower to upper cups ; 
failing to deposit their ball or missing any of the 
following points, which add to their game, counts 
as a miss, then the next player takes his turn, and 
so oh continue. The points are as follows : 

In hitting other players' balls counts one. 

When g-etting their own ball in cups counts two. 

Getting other players' balls in cups counts three. 

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10 COUPE CROQUET. 

Players in croqueting hits tAvo balls with one 
stroke, counts the player four. 

If in hitting three, counts five. 

Playere can croquet any where to make their 
points in the game, or deposit their own ball if to 
their advantage. Player cannot nurse the balls 
more than once, so that each player may have an 
equal chance. When players' balls are deposited 
in cups by other players, owner takes their ball 
out and waits his turn in the game, and when their 
turn comes around, they hit their ball near the 
cup they were deposited in, and so on continue 
the game. 

The game to be played with four balls, one to 
each player. 

Size of bed, six feet wide, eight feet long. Cups 
one foot apart in corners, as per diagram. 

GAME KEPT ON SLATE. 



COUPE CROQUET. 11 

BOYS' MARBLE GAME. 












Size of bed, four feet wide, eight feet long. Laid 
out as per diagram. 



MARBLE GAME. 

Place the nine cups, as per diagram, two or three 
feet apart as the players wish; each player has one, 
shooting Avith five or ten marbles to hack him ; 
each player deposits one marble in the pool before 
commencing the game, first player commencing 
the game six or eight feet from first cup, shooting 
upwards; players in going through their cups keep 
on a straight line until getting to the centre cup, 
then play in a diagonal manner, then to their line 
again returning in the same way in coming back 
on the other line of cups ; if they should deposit, 
keep on to next, and so on ; if he should miss, next 
player goes on. Players have the right to shoot 
at other players' marbles ; if hitting, player received 
from one hit a marble. Player cannot hit the same 
marble until deposited in the next cup on their 
line. If players in shooting at other players' 
marbles should get their own marbles in any cup 

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out of the line on which they are, it counts a miss, 
then the next player goes on. The cups count 
from one to nine. In shooting other players' 
marbles in cups, count as cups are numbered to 
their game, highest number of player takes the 
pool and is winner of the game. 

Size of bed, four feet wide, eight feet long. Laid 
out as per diagram. 

GAME KEPT ON SLATE. 



PARLOR CUPS. 





The Star Cups are made exclusively for the 
game to be played on the carpet, floor or where 
the cups cannot be sunk. With a little practice 
the balls and marbles can be very readily deposited 
in the cups. The cups are star-shaped, grooved 
out between the points so that the ball in striking 
between the points will run in. 

If players do not want to take the time to sink 
the cups in the ground, the star cups can be used. 
Their own weight keeps them in position. 



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CIRCULAR. 

Dealers will state in their orders the size and style 
of aips. Figures i, 2 and 3, on the following page, 
are open, close, and tube cups. 

The different sizes to suit the Croquet Balls now in 
use are three to three and a-half inches in diajneter. 
Cups for Marble Game one and one-half inches in 
diameter. 

If cups are left in the groicnd, we have caps which 
set in cups to keep the dirt out. 

Dealers can have any part of the croquet game seitt 
to their order, in large or small quantities, such as 
balls, mallets, cups, books, ^c. 

For Terms, Agencies, or State rights, 

ADDRESS, 

BOGIA & ZIMMERMAN, 
JBox 2656, Post Office, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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